The Cassandra Complex re-release 20-year old ‘Wetware’ in 3 linked releases
(Picture by Daniela Vorndran) Almost 20 years ago (it's like yesterday if you ask us) the influential goth-electro-industrial-cyberpunk band The...
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Jonteknik – Tectonics (CD Album – The People’s Electric)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Based in Brighton (UK) Jon Russell better known as Jonteknik, has just released his ninth full length...
Electronica duo Komputer reboot for London show
Komputer, the Mute artists who joined the influential label in 1984 as I Start Counting, are rebooting for a live...
Dirty Vocoder (project by Escape With Romeo frontman) offers brand new video and single for ‘Cocaine Dawn’
Dirty Vocoder is a new electronic solo project by Cologne based Thomas Elbern, founder and frontman of the German new...
‘Click Interview’ with A Spell Inside: ‘We Live The Ideal Of An Independent Band’
Michael (Mel) Roeder and Peter Kirchmeyer set up A Spell Inside in 1989! The German electro-pop duo this year celebrates...
Deutsche Bank – Transmission (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Despite of the band name, Deutsche Bank is a Swedish project driven by Mats From. The album...
The Cassandra Complex release debut album ‘Grenade’ in a 2019 remastered version
(Picture by Xavier Marquis) The classic The Cassandra Complex album "Grenade" from 1986 is once again available. Over 30 years...
Human Steel – Invaders (CD Album – Human Steel)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2007 by the Polish duo Wojciech Gierowski (aka ‘Lindey Lindstorm’) and Marcin Wanat “Invaders”...
Why Kraftwerk Should Be Inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Kraftwerk are one of the most important and influential bands of all time, the most influential for us, and yet...
Onsturicheit – Angstzweet (CD Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Krautorck, experimental. Background/Info: “Angstzweet” is the 16th chapter of the “Belgian NeuMusik”-series created by Belgian label Wool-E Discs. It...
Kraftwerk wins sampling case in EU top court: permission needs to be obtained to sample another musician’s song
A verdict in the EU top court - which lasted for 22 years (!) - is defining the rules of...
‘Click Interview’ with Anni Hogan: ‘It Was A Really Happy Album Setting Based On Love And Friendship’
If you’re an ‘80s kid’ who listened to ‘dark’ music you for sure remember Anni Hogan! She started piano lessons...
‘Click Interview’ with Novocibirsk: ‘The Approach That Was Mine, Was Not To Compose Music’
Electro-pop lovers know the French label BOREDOMproduct. This label is the host of bands such as Celluloide, Dekad, Foretaste… but...
‘Click Interview’ with Mark Burghgraeve: ‘We Were Multicultural Anarchists With A Rainbow Of Tastes And Opinions’
Does the name Mark Burghraeve make ring a bell? No doubt about it, ‘older’ electro heads know this Belgian artist...
Click Interview with The Overlookers: ‘We Wanted To Break The Rock‘N’roll Codes’
The French electro-pop label BOREDOMproduct doesn’t often sign new bands. So I was really wondering who was hiding behind this...
Anni Hogan – Lost In Blue (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, jazz, cabaret. Background/Info: Anni Hogan belongs to this list of mythical artists from the 80s underground movement. She...
Novocibirsk – Télévision 1945 Volume 1 (CD Album – ProductionB)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: ProductionB is the brand-new subdivision of the French electro-pop label BOREDOMproduct. The French label released its...
‘Click Interview’ with Viviankrist: ‘Equipment Gives Me Inspiration’
Viviankrist is a minimal electro/power-noise project set up by Japanese female artist Eri Isaka. Around 1997-1999 she was member of...
Metroland – Framed + Framed Anew (Vinyl Double Album + CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Belgian Metroland last year unleashed their fourth full length “Men In A Frame”; a conceptual album about...
Darkness On Demand – Detoxination (Digital EP – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: From Dance Or Die to Darkness On Demand not much has really changed in style and...
‘Click Interview’ with Ruined Conflict: ‘The New Album Was Supposed To Be My Last Work In This Scene’
Set up in 2011 by Xavier Morales, Ruined Conflict got rapidly signed to Infacted Recordings. The electro/future-pop style directly reminded...
Junor Reactor’s Kris Kylven revamps his industrial project Ultimate Xperience with a brand new album
Kris Kylven (Junor Reactor's Drummer / Collaborator / The 69 Eyes Remixer & Ex-Killing Joke) returns with his trance /...
Datapop – Pop (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish duo Mikael Larsson - Anders Wilhelm have been active for a couple of years and don’t...
Metroland holds special expo ‘Pictures to listen to’ in Mechelen (BE) – here’s a video report by Side-Line
Our Side-Line editor in chief Bernard Van Isacker was present at Metroland's opening expo night in Mechelen (BE) this weekend....
Djedjotronic – R.U.R. (Vinyl Album – Boysnoize Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: French DJ/producer Jérèmy Cottereau is now based in Berlin. He can look back at an impressive...
2-track Karl Bartos vinyl single with 50th issue Electronic Sound
The Electronic Sound magazine is celebrating its 50th issue with a special vinyl package when you sign up to the...
Metroland returns with brand new single ‘Reframed’
To close this fruitful 2018 year in beauty, Belgium’s vintage synth pop duo Metroland are releasing today the exclusive “Reframed”...
One – Alpha Noise Fetishism (CD mini-Album – One)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: One (or also called One Human Factor) is a French project that was set up in...
Iris Manta – Kilonova (CD Album – Iris Manta)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, electro-pop, minimal-electro. Background/Info: “Kilonova” is the second full length album by Greek artist Manos Zafirakis. Iris Manta is...
Daniel.B.Prothese – HöllEKtroKraut / HellEctroKraut (DCD Album – db2fluctuation)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, krautrock, ambient. Background/Info: Daniel Bressanutti (Daniel B) became a real prolific artist during the past few years. He...
5 duo-tickets to win via Side-Line for Sinner’s Day Festival (December 1, 2018)
On Saturday December 1st the Limburghal (Jaarbeurslaan 6) in Genk (BE) will host the 5th edition of the Sinner's Day...
Metroland launches 2 singles: ‘Memorabilia’ and ‘Memorabilia (remixes)’ – preview both singles
Belgium's electronic duo Metroland has launched 2 new singles: "Memorabilia" and "Memorabilia (remixes)". Both singles count 3 tracks each and...
Carl Finlow – Romboid Assassin (Digital EP – Lone Romantic)
Genre/Influences: IDM. Background/Info: Born in England, but operating from Toulon (France) Carl Finlow is an old servant from the electro/IDM...
